“I was deeply dismayed by her performance in her confirmation hearing. It was, in a word, disqualifying,” says Robert C. Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia.

Despite the education community’s clear polarization over the appointment of Betsy DeVos as the next U.S. secretary of education, there may be a silver lining in her confirmation—specifically, for those in the career and technical education (CTE) community.

The University of Connecticut and the Neag School of Education is honoring North Branford’s Jerome Harrison Elementary School Principal Carter Welch as their 2017 Outstanding School Administrator.

She’s only 38, but alum Alison Burdick has already been the principal of Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School in New London, Conn., for some seven years. Meet the best and brightest of Generation Next — people under the age of 40 who are excelling in their fields, leading and influencing others, and making a difference, named to Connecticut Magazine’s 2017 Class of “40 Under 40.”

The Neag School of Education conducted an opening reception of the Implicit Bias Exhibition at the Homer Babbidge Library on the University of Connecticut Storrs campus.

Ridgefield Assistant Superintendent of Schools Kimberly Beck is mentoring with Superintendent of Schools Joseph V. Erardi, Jr, this school year through the University of Connecticut’s Executive Leadership Program.

Greenwich Daily Voice (Neag School alum, Lori Mulligan, was appointed summer school coordinator for Greenwich Public Schools)

“The People’s Inauguration is designed to affirm the values they believe create the UConn community that they would like to belong to,” Dr. Glenn Mitoma, director of the Dodd Center and assistant professor of human rights and education, said.

Neag School undergraduate students are part of a pilot initiative with Stamford Public Schools, where the students worked in different capacities over winter break.

“It’s easy to call overt sexism ‘sexism,’” says Laura Burton, a professor at the Neag School who studies gender issues in sports. “It’s so much more difficult when it becomes more subtle and more implicit. It’s harder to name it, and it’s harder to see it and put our finger on it.”